[MINGLE] One fish, two fish...

[alwayscomeback]

Who: Everyone aboard the Best Ship (Aka The SS Blue Fish)
Broadcast: Maybe?
Action: The Blue Fish
When: Today!

[Not one, but TWO people have arrived on the Blue Fish today in the shuffle. Greet them! Otherwise, hang out together, bring your guests aboard, have fun! It's a mingle ya'll ]

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Leliana | OTA

[nugqueen]

[Leliana isn't exactly part of the Welcome Committee but she's around, lingering here and there with Schmooples tucked in her arms as she makes her Security rounds. Later on, she stops in the kitchen for food and a pours herself a glass of wine. It was one of the few indulgences she allowed herself these days.

Should anyone be paying close attention she had her eyes closed, hands folded beneath her chin as she was left at prayer. Lately it had become a frequent thing as the months drew by and still she and others from Thedas remained in the fleet. Anyone from Thedas come to call familiar with the Chant of Light might recognize a verse or two but Leliana would not sit and recite all twelve Canticles. After a moment, Leliana looks up once she realizes someone has come into the kitchens and gives them a short wave before reaching for her tea.]

[alwayscomeback]

[Sokka always makes it a point to check in on the newcomers, make sure they settle in well. But he never, ever neglects the rest of his crew. He likes to talk with them, to see how they're doing- if there was anything worrying them- something he could help with.

He smiles a little, returning the wave, going to rummage around for some tallbird jerky. ]

Penny for your thoughts.

[nugqueen]

[Leliana admired Sokka's drive, even if at times it reminded her far too much of Josephine and her worrying over her. At least he didn't try to have tea parties to make sure everyone was getting along - thank Andraste.]

Far too many for a penny, I think - but it's trivial for the most part.

[Should she talk to him about Anders? Was that even wise? She didn't want to incite fear and yet this continued inaction bothered her. Part of her wanted to batten down the hatches, so to speak.]

Just thinking of home.

[She'd been in the fleet long enough to have settled and found a place in the crew and in the Interfaith Center but she still felt restless. She'd done her best to keep it underneath the surface but there were moments that those darker thoughts would escape, thoughts that it would just be so much easier to send some sort of message to Justice - to do harm to him and Anders - and yet she had stayed her hand and chose to wait and watch for the inevitable. She hated thinking that way. Anders was a mage and did not deserve to be viewed as a monster, as so many saw him. She didn't want to and yet she continued to watch him and wait, treating him in her mind like a bomb waiting to go off. In reality, it could very well be her own pent up emotions that were the real bomb.]

[alwayscomeback]

[His tea parties would be awful anyway. No one wants his attempts at a tea party. ]

That's pretty normal around here, thinking about home.

[His smile softens a little, moving to sit down, happily eating the delicious jerky. Meat, glorious meat. ]

You want to talk about it? I mean- I get it if you don't. I know home-stuff can get pretty complicated.

[His usually is, after all.]

Allen | OTA

[save_the_souls]

[ As the month of October progresses, the crew of the blue fish might notice some decorations being placed around the ship. Jack-o-Lanterns, fake cobwebs, rubber spiders and bats, small skeletons with various hats, ravens- all sorts of various halloween decorations that clearly someone has been stocking up on throughout the different planets. These seem to go up in the wee hours of the morning, with little omission of who is putting them up.

Though looking at the kitchen table, where Allen can be found using one of his daggers to carve into a pumpkin- might be a good place to start. ]

[summerschild]

[Bran looks warily at a Jack-o-Lantern, and seems to make the connection to Allen's current vegetable-mutilation.]

Why are you giving the pumpkins faces?

[save_the_souls]

They're Jack-o-Lanterns!

[He grins at Bran as his hand is reaching deeply into a pumpkin, grabbing onto its guts]

It's a decoration for Halloween, an Earth holiday that is around this time of year.

[summerschild]

[Bran looks enthralled by Allen's action, and wheels closer to see what's inside.]

Is it for prayer?

[He thinks of the weirwoods, with their carved faces, similarly spooky.]

[alwayscomeback]

[Sokka still doesn't really get Halloween. It sounds like a pretty bizarre way to have a celebration of anything, in all honesty. And he's sat through Avatar Day- that was the worst. Still, he can't ever deny anything that makes Allen genuinely happy. So, he'll sit across the table from him, smiling a little as the guy starts carving up a pumpkin. ]

Where were you even keeping all this stuff?

[save_the_souls]

[He grins at Sokka as he sits down]

Oh, various spots! Usually in boxes marked "dried vegetables", so I could be sure you wouldn't snoop into them.

[alwayscomeback]

[He sits back, letting out a low, impressed whistle. ]

Sneaky and well played! I'm impressed.

Kanda | OTA

[witheringlotus]

[bridge]

[Kanda arrives on the bridge in a puff of confetti. He does not look pleased, but then again, that's his usual expression. He's dressed in a black uniform and a long trenchcoat, and he has a bag slung over his shoulder for traveling-- as well as a wrapped up bundle in the shape of a sword.

He's visited maybe once or twice in the past month, but now he's here to stay. Surprise?]

[elsewhere]

[Your newest lab support guy doesn't really need to check out the lab since he's bled in there before, but he might visit briefly in order to see if there's any flourescent ones he can nab for an indoor garden. He's also taking stock of the bath facilities and just how upgraded the bedrooms are. Nice.

Later on, Kanda may be found poking around the kitchen to see what the Blue Fish has for food. If there's anything even vaguely resembling Japanese food, he's going to eat that first... but the true goal here is pumpkin tempura, so give him about fifteen minutes and he'll be frying some up.]

elsewhere

[save_the_souls]

[Allen is walking in from the kitchen after waking up from a nap (okay maybe not so much a nap as passing out after staying up late to study). He hasn't gotten the memo yet about the new crewmate, so he's rather confused at seeing whose digging around in the kitchen]

Kanda? [He yawns and stretches a little] What're you doing here?

[He's pretty sure he took Kanda back to his ship after the last time they hung out....at least, he's pretty sure. He did, right? He wouldn't forget to take someone back to their ship...

...right?]

1/2

[witheringlotus]

[He adds some water to a bowl, then glances over his shoulder and sees Allen. Looks like he's having a typical lazy day.]

I'm making lunch.

[If Allen looks, he'll see a bunch of vegetables have been chopped into graspable pieces, which he's now dumping into the tempura batter.]

[witheringlotus]

Oh, right. I transferred.

[save_the_souls]

You what?

[Did he hear that right? What?

Okay he's going for the coffee pot. Please let there be some leftover coffee]

Bridge

[alwayscomeback]

[Sokka does his best to greet everyone who newly arrives on the Blue Fish. It's a matter of pride, for him. To be sure they know they're in a good place, that they're safe here, that they can come to him for anything.

He's...actually pretty surprised to see Kanda there. Allen hadn't mentioned anything at all about him transferring. Weird. That's not like Allen at all. ]

Oh uh...hey? This is a...cool surprise.

[witheringlotus]

[Oh, right, it's that one guy. Sake? Soccer? He greets Sokka not with a smile, but his usual frown.]

This is still Allen's ship, right?

[...]

Is there a problem?

[alwayscomeback]

[Sweet jesus, it's like being with Zuko with Extra Flavour. ]

Oh, no! Not at all. That's cool. It'll be nice for him to have a friend around.

[He's still not convinced Kanda actually IS a friend. But Allen doesn't seem to hate him so yeah, sure. Why not. He smiles, offering a hand.]

Welcome to the Blue Fish.

VISITING; Clay | OTA

[geonomy]

[With all that pumpkin Allen used for Jack-o-lanterns, the rest of it had to be used for something! There was a lot of it, so with Allen's permission, Clay took them back to his ship to do a certain something with them.

Today, he returns with gifts. In the kitchen, there's about fifteen pumpkin pies and a huge bowl of roasted pumpkin seeds. He left some with the Vanquish as well, of course; it's his crew, after all, and they were top priority. But Clay also knows that there are at least two big eaters on the ship, and so the Blue Fish gets a bulk of that food.

Clay himself leans against the table, picking out a few seeds and helping himself to them. Or if he isn't there, then one might find him in the rec room, using the exercise equipment for his daily workout.]

[save_the_souls]

[After exorcising Anders? Allen is definitely hungry, so of course he made a b-line for the kitchen. Which man, he sure is happily surprised to see this sight as he walks in. Lots of food and his boyfriend? That's a sight Allen always loves to see]

Ah, what's all this?

[geonomy]

[Aha! That's definitely the main person he was waiting for to see all this. Clay gives a big smile in greeting, his arm moving to gesture to all the food.]

Remember all that pumpkin you let me have? Well, it paid off!

[save_the_souls]

Really? [He looks across the field of pies, awed] Wow, I didn't think it'd be this much! That's incredible!

[alwayscomeback]

Oh hey, FOOD!

[Sokka happily heads over. Okay so it's not meat but it's still food and he'll enjoy eating-

...Oh right. Manners. Halfway to taking a huge slice of pie to his mouth, he turns sloooowly in Clay's direction.]

Hi Clay. Thanks for bringing the food.

[geonomy]

[Clay gives a grin a return, holding his hand up in greeting.]

Hey, no problem! I had way more than I or my crew could ever eat on my hands anyway.